UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE’S
CARDINAL
VOL. 10 LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1941 NO. 7
WE ARE PROUD
THAT . . . .
. . . “The Cardinal is a newspaper,
published by the students of the Uni-versity
of Lpuisville. The views ex-pressed
in it are those of students
only.”
L. A. Amends
Constitution
The L. A. Student Council con-stitution
stood amended today as
a result of Tuesday’s election
which revealed 85% of voting
students in favor of the change in
a vote numbering well over a
hundred.
According to the amendment
“all offices and vacancies of the
Student Council shall be filled by
their original electorate, unless
the vacancies occur after the first
grading period of the second se-mester.”
Under the interpretation
of the now amended constitution
the Council does not have the
power to fill its own vacancies,
power which they exercised in
the election of their present head,
Vernon Lussky, and an act which
drew much fire from the student
body because of doubt raised as
its propriety.
On the heels of the above vote
will come another opportunity
for students to exercise their
franchises in the class elections
announced for Thursday, Nov. 6,
when L. A. will choose its execu-tives
for the coming year. At that
time they will select a president,
vice-president, secretary, treas-urer,
and sergeant-at-arms, for
each of the four classes.
Nominations, which have to be
in by Monday, consist of petitions
containing the signatures of
twenty-five bona fide members
of the class of the nominee, said
petitions to be turned in to the
office of the Dean of Women.
Election will be by secret ballot
and will be supervised by the
S. C. Election Commission, chair-manned
by Ray Sales.
Lectureship
In Med School
By Dr. Brown
The committee for the Ephraim
McDowell Lectureship announced
this week that the Third Annual
Ephraim McDowell Lectureship
of the University of Louisville
School of Medicine will be pre-sented
by Dr. J. Barrett Brown,
Professor of Surgery at Washing-ton
University School of Medi-cine
in St. Louis. Dr. Brown is
one of the world’s foremost plas-tic
surgeons and one of the
youngest men in this field. The
subject and date of the lecture-ship
will be announced soon. Due
to the present war conditions, it
is quite probable that the subject
will be closely related to war
surgery.
Last year’s lectureship was
presented by Dr. Barney Brooks,
Professor of Surgery at Vander-bilt
University School of Medi-cine.
Incidentally, Dr. Brown is
one of Dr. Brqpk’s pupils.
This lectureship, which is spon-sored
by the local chapter of Phi
Beta Pi medical fraternity, is
given annually to commemorate
the work of Dr. Ephraim Mc-
Dowell, and it pertains to recent
work done in the advancement of
medicine. Dr. McDowell, who re-sided
in Boonesville, Kentucky,
was the first known man in the
world to do a successful ovariec-tomy.
Nat’l Officers
Of K. A. Order
Locate Here
Stationing of the Home Office
of Kappa Alpha Order in Louis-ville
was celebrated by the local
chapter with a formal banquet
Tuesday night at the French Vil-lage.
A group of forty members
heard talks by three outstanding
members of the order who were
expressly honored that night.
Most prominent guest and one
of the speakers was Dr. William
Hamilton, Archive of the frater-nity,
who has been actively con-nected
with the order for 56
years. He is the only living mem-ber
who knew and had any con-tact
with the four original foun-ders
of Kappa Alpha. Also at the
speakers’ table were the other
two honored guests of the eve-ning,
Col. Lucien Beckner, foun-der
of the Theta chapter at the
University of Kentucky, who has
been connected with the frater-nity
for 47 years, and Mr. Ranee
Basset, former Province Com-mander
who has been promoted
to Executive Secretary of the
Order. Jack Ruffin, former K. A.
from Southwestern University,
was also a guest at the banquet.
The removal of the K. A. Home
Offices to Louisville makes it the
only national fraternal Greek
office located in this district.
Camera Contest
Held By Annual
Thoroughbred biggie Carl
Merritt this week pulled a pho-tographers
contest out of the year
books new attractions. No holds
are barred in the contest. The
camera may be used on anyone,
anywhere, the only rules being
that the annual may publish any
shot entered in the contest.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best collection of five shots, can-did
or posed, of student activity
in L.A., Speed, Med, Dental, Law,
or Music School. The entrees,
which must be composed of five
pictures all from the same school,
will be judged on personality and
student interest. An award will
also go to the best single pictures
representing each season fall,
winter, and spring—with the sub-jects
ranging from athletics, po-litical
working, to just buggin’,
huggin’, and lovin’ events.
Joe Bliss, business manager of
the book, revealed that two
weeks work has netted the busi-ness
staff over $2OO in advertis-ing,
placing the present staff far
ahead of last year’s drive which
solicited only $6OO in ads for the
entire year. He attributed this
great increase in advertising to
the new methods of soliciting and
to the fact that the Thorough-bred’s
increased circulation has
made it easier to interest business
men in advertising through the
year book.
The business staff, however, is
still on the outlook for students
interested in digging up ads. A
twenty percent commission may
be earned on all ads secured
either by letter or personal con-tact.
A list of prospective adver-tisers
may be obtained from Bliss
at the Thoroughbred Office, Gar-diner
Hall.
Speed Frosh Pick Officers
Speed School Freshmen balloted through their class officers and
student council representatives at an election held early Monday
morning in the Speed auditorium. The high votes were gathered in by
Robert Bierbaum, president; Zeno Zabban, vice-president; Ton Henley,
secretary; Richard Parrish, treasurer; and Robert Watt and John
Trapp, student council members. Honor council member also elected
was Charles Bush. -
Boasting freedom from political gaming, nominations were taken
from the floor with three or four men put up for each office. Holding
a run-off election for each post, the vote was taken by show of hands
except in the finals of the presidential battle. Here a close showing
necessitated a vote by roll call of the 127 members of the class.
—Photo by Barney Cowherd
Officers Richard Parrish, Thomas F. Henley, Robert M. Waits, Bob
Bierbaum, John Trapp, and Zeno Zabban confer on a class deal.
Noted City Poet
To Lecture Here
After forty years of study, Mr.
Cale Young Rice, noted Louis-ville
poet, is prepared to deliver
a series of six lectures as an au-tumnal
supplement to the Fort-nightly
Series. The series, en-titled
“New Approach to Philoso-phy,”
and based on Mr. Rice’s
new book of that title, is sponsored
by the University and the Pres-byterian
Theological Seminary.
They will begin Tuesday, Nov. 4
and will be held on consecutive
Tuesdays thereafter at eight
o’clock in the Allen Court Room.
Mr. Rice promises that his lec-tures
will include a serious treat-ment
of all the major problems
of philosophy, following closely
the text of his book. The audience
will participate in a general dis-cussion
of the problems involved
at the conclusion of the address.
According to advance reports,
Mr. Rice will apply his theories
of reality to logic, science, ethics,
aesthetics, religion, etc. The local
poet recognizes four basic ele-ments:
space, time, energy and
mind.
Dr. C. F. Virtue, head of the
Convocations Committee, declar-ed
that he hoped the fall semester
lecture series, inaugurated this
year by Mr.' Rice, who incident-ally
holds an honorary degree
from the University, might be-come
a permanent feature. Such
a series of addresses, covering
various fields of thought and
bringing to the campus outstand-ing
speakers, would supplement
the regular spring Fortnightly
Series, begun two years ago to
acquaint the people of Louisville
with the work of the University.
Cardinal Meeting
Attracts Reporters
To Paying Jobs
A revival of campus spirit
brought amazing results last
week as ovei a dozen students
responded to Cardinal's plea for
reporters and journalistic aspir-ants
of all kinds. Highlighting the
get-together meeting Monday
was the distribution of free
passes to downtown theaters for
most all those attending and the
announcement that this was to
be a regular feature at future
meetings. Every Monday at 12:30
on the third floor of Gardiner
Hall—that’s the time v and place
for this astonishing offer.
Cardinal editors announced
yesterday that in addition to
these rewards, there were still
several paying positions open on
the Cardinal and that these were
to be decided by open competi-tion.
Lawrence Smith, business
manager revealed that besides
these salaried jobs, there was still
room for two or three more ad-vertising
representatives who re-ceive
a large percentage on all
advertising secured. “If any stu-dent
really needs to make all or
part of his expenses, here’s his
opportunity,” said Smith.
It was further pointed out that
the present Cardinal staff is com-posed
mainly of upperclassman
and that a splendid opportunity
exists for freshmen and sopho-mores
to get a start now toward
paying positions for next year.
Complete details of the next
meeting may be found on the edi-torial
page of this week’s paper.
For further information, consult
your local editors.
Campus Leaders Inaugurate Club
All Campus Schools
Included In Group
To Aid Leadership
With the adoption of the name
the “Cardinal Keys” and the rad-ification
of a constitution, the
Campus Leadership group took
another step last Tuesday night
toward its inauguration as a per-manent
and vital campus group.
Following a three-hour strug-gle
over constitutional items, the
student presidents brought the
meeting to a close with an unani-mous
vote to accept the revised
article and declare the body an
active organization. Summing up
the purposes of the body, the pre-amble
of its constitution reads:
“Be it known, that a Leaders
Club shall be formed in the Col-leges
of Belknap Campus of the
University of Louisville to stimu-late
and promote more active stu-dent
leadership, to attempt to
solve the various problems that
confront the student and the
school, and to bring about a
friendlier and more cooperative
union between the student organi-sations.”
Membership in the group com-prises
the elected group of cam-pus
leaders—the presidents of the
student organizations of all the
colleges of Belknap Campus.
Members automatically become
Cardinal Keys Alumni and as
such attain ex-officio standing
when no longer in office as or-ganization
heads.
Most heated debating of the
evening occurred over the ques-tion
of making the group purely
Liberal Arts or including other
campus schools, with the vote go-ing
in favor of taking in all cam-pus
colleges. Elections of officers
is predicted for the next meeting
Meanwhile, the group elected
four students, Jim Thornton, Don
Maher, Ewing Arnn, and Charles
Herold to cooperate with the
Deans of all the campus colleges
in drawing up a list of organiza-tions
to be included in the mem-bership.
New organizations must
have been organized and active
in the College for a period of one
year before they attain eligibility
to the Cardinal Keys.
Sigma Tau
Takes In Five
Five boys from the Speed
Scientific School now pace
around the campus with triangles
of metal dangling on a blue rib-bon.
They are the new pledges to
Sigma Tau, National Honorary
Engineering Society. Members
are chosen for scholarship, prac-ticality,
and sociability.
One of the most original and
valuable contributions of the or-ganization
is their coaching ser-vice.
The members of the club
offer this service without charge
to freshmen needing assistance in
their school work.
The new pledges of the local
Omicron chapter, elected recent-ly,
are Carl Merritt, John Burns,
David Newbern, George Higgins,
and Wilbur Adams.